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Free Church, Roxburgh Street, Kelso

A Category A Listed Building in Kelso, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6007 / 55°36'2"N

Longitude: -2.4368 / 2°26'12"W

OS Eastings: 372572

OS Northings: 634201

OS Grid: NT725342

Mapcode National: GBR C3FP.74

Mapcode Global: WH8XZ.JHTB

Plus Code: 9C7VJH27+77

Entry Name: Free Church, Roxburgh Street, Kelso

Listing Name: Roxburgh Street St John's Edenside and Ednam Church of Scotland

Listing Date: 16 March 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380458

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35800

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kelso North Parish Church (Kelso, Scotland)

ID on this website: 200380458

Location: Kelso

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Kelso

Electoral Ward: Kelso and District

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

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Description

F T Pilkington, 1865-7, highly individual version of English
Decorated Gothic. Tall gable to west with central projecting
gabled entrance porch rising through the arcaded cusped
windows that light the vestibule. Above and lighting the
gallery is a pair of two-light windows, cusped with
trefoils in the spandrels of the centre mullion, surmounted
by a cusped vesica in the attic of the gable. Slightly to the
north is a massive 3 stage tower and spire. Tall lucarnes
at the belfry clasp an octagonal spire with two-tier
tabernacles with tall slated pyramidal roofs at the
angles. Interior: complex plan with steeply raking gallery
to the west, open timber roof with central boss. Original
gallery front and pews but stripped and light stained;
20th century communion table pulpit and organ case.

Statement of Interest

Built as Kelso Free Church of which Dr Horatius Bonar, the

hymn-writer, was the minister. Ecclesiastical building in

use as such.

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